Immediate and Crisis Resources

Anishnawbe 24/7 Mental Health Crisis Line is a  24-hour crisis line offering culturally appropriate mental health and crisis support for Indigenous people in Toronto and surrounding communities.

Call 416-891-8606 for immediate support during a mental health or emotional crisis, including when experiencing thoughts of suicide or feeling overwhelmed.

The service is provided through Anishnawbe Health Toronto, which offers culturally based health and wellness services to Indigenous communities.

Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) Crisis Line is a free, confidential and culturally safe crisis line providing emotional and crisis support to Indian Residential School Survivors, intergenerational Survivors, their families and Indigenous communities.

Trained Indigenous counsellors and support workers can provide immediate emotional support, crisis intervention, grounding and referrals to culturally relevant services.

Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 1-866-925-4419/1.800.721.0066.

If you’re thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, the Canada Suicide Prevention Service is available 24/7 for voice and 4pm to 12am ET for text.

Additional service details:

• For anyone in Canada that is thinking about, is or has been affected by suicide
• Available across Canada via toll-free phone, or text in English.
• Toll-free phone service is also available in French.
• Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Barrier-free, non-judgmental, supportive and responsive responders.
• Nationally available, regionally delivered service, with collective strengths, local knowledge, resources, and technology to support the needs of all people in Canada.
• Highly trained, committed and capable responders leverage our unique Canadian culture, attitudes and values, providing a network of support from coast to coast.

Distress Centres of Greater Toronto provides 24-hour support, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to individuals in our community at risk and their most vulnerable.

Our crisis and emotional distress services are available via hotline chat and text.

Our multi-lingual services offer support in seven languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish).

Our Traumatic Loss program offers virtual/face-to-face individual counselling as well as group support to those who have lost a loved one to suicide or homicide and are navigating the aftermath.

Our Touching Base and Senior Support Programs offer vulnerable seniors and youth with medical medication/appointment reminders, mental wellness check-ins and social supports to combat isolation.

For adults 16+ in the City of Toronto who are dealing with mental health, concurrent, or substance use issues and are currently in crisis.

Our services include 24/7 telephone support, in-person mobile crisis team, community support referrals, substance use crisis management, follow-up and access to short-term crisis beds.

Over-the-phone interpretation services are available 24/7 in over 180 languages through RIO Network.

Good2Talk provides 24/7 free, confidential support services for post-secondary students in Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Support in Ontario can be accessed by calling, texting or through Facebook Messenger.

Support in Nova Scotia can be accessed by calling or texting.

Hope for Wellness Helpline is a free, confidential and culturally safe service available to all Indigenous people across Canada.

Experienced counsellors are available by telephone and online chat to provide immediate emotional support, crisis intervention and referrals to community-based services. Support is available in English and French, as well as Cree, Ojibwe and Inuktitut by request.

Call 1-855-242-3310, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Kids Help Phone is Canada’s 24/7 e-mental health service offering free, confidential support to young people in English and French.

We’re here for kids, teens and young adults from coast to coast to coast and offer the following immediate support:

• Texting with a crisis responder any time, about anything, via Tap to Text.
• Getting support from a crisis responder through Facebook Messenger.
• Calling a crisis responder any time, about anything, via the helpline 1-800-668-6868.

YouthLine offers free, anonymous and non-judgemental peer support for 2SLGBTQ+ youth aged 29 and under in Ontario.

Connect with trained 2SLGBTQ+ youth peer supporters by live chat or text at 647-694-4275, Sunday to Friday, 4:00–9:30 p.m. ET.

YouthLine also provides a directory of local and online 2SLGBTQ+ resources.

The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre / Multicultural Women Against Rape (TRCC/MWAR) works towards a violence-free world by providing anti-oppressive, feminist peer support to survivors of gender-based or sexualized violence.

Our crisis line is available 24/7.

We engage in public education, activism, and provide direct individual and group support to survivors and their supporters.

TRCC/MWAR is a grassroots, women and non-binary people run collective.

Trans Lifeline is a  free, confidential and anonymous peer support hotline run by and for trans and questioning people. Trained trans and nonbinary peer operators provide emotional support, crisis assistance and connections to community resources.

In Canada, call 1-877-330-6366, Monday to Friday, 1:00–9:00 p.m. ET.

Trans Lifeline does not contact emergency services without the caller’s explicit consent.